Srinagar, April 8 -- AGUH Chief Trapped, Operation Underway: Police

Srinagar: Three unidentified militants were killed and two soldiers injured on Thursday in an ongoing gunfight in the main town of south Kashmir's Shopian district.

Special operations group (SOG) of police, army's 44 RR assisted by paramilitary CRPF personnel laid a siege around Jan Mohalla in Shopian town on Thursday after receiving specific inputs suggesting presence of militants in the locality, an official said. When the joint team launched combing operation, he said, the militants hiding in a residential house opened fire upon them in a bid to escape from their dragnet.

"The joint team retaliated to the fire setting off an encounter. In the exchange of gunfire, a ...